Job Seekers’ Impression Management on Facebook: Scale Development, Antecedents, and Outcomes
Many organizations rely on social media like Facebook as a screening or selection tool; however, research still largely lags behind practice. For instance, little is known about how individuals are strategically utilizing their Facebook profile while applying for jobs. This research examines job see...
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2021-05-01
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| author | Myers, Vanessa Price, Jennifer Roulin, Nicolas Duval, Alexandra Sobhani, Shayda |
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| description | Many organizations rely on social media like Facebook as a screening or selection tool; however, research still largely lags behind practice. For instance, little is known about how individuals are strategically utilizing their Facebook profile while applying for jobs. This research examines job seekers’ impression management (IM) tactics on Facebook, personality traits associated with IM use, and associations between IM and job-search outcomes. Results from two complementary studies demonstrate that job seekers engage in three main Facebook IM tactics: defensive, assertive deceptive, and assertive honest IM. Job seekers lower in Honesty–Humility use more Facebook IM tactics, whereas those higher in Extraversion use more honest IM and those higher on Conscientiousness use less deceptive IM. Honest IM tactics used on Facebook are positively related to job-search outcomes. This paper therefore extends previous IM research by empirically examining IM use on Facebook, along with its antecedents and outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c6d75a32e0bf42ad834c0c0d8312074f2022-12-21T23:22:47ZengInternational Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC)Personnel Assessment and Decisions2377-88222021-05-017110.25035/pad.2021.01.010Job Seekers’ Impression Management on Facebook: Scale Development, Antecedents, and OutcomesMyers, VanessaPrice, JenniferRoulin, NicolasDuval, AlexandraSobhani, ShaydaMany organizations rely on social media like Facebook as a screening or selection tool; however, research still largely lags behind practice. For instance, little is known about how individuals are strategically utilizing their Facebook profile while applying for jobs. This research examines job seekers’ impression management (IM) tactics on Facebook, personality traits associated with IM use, and associations between IM and job-search outcomes. Results from two complementary studies demonstrate that job seekers engage in three main Facebook IM tactics: defensive, assertive deceptive, and assertive honest IM. Job seekers lower in Honesty–Humility use more Facebook IM tactics, whereas those higher in Extraversion use more honest IM and those higher on Conscientiousness use less deceptive IM. Honest IM tactics used on Facebook are positively related to job-search outcomes. This paper therefore extends previous IM research by empirically examining IM use on Facebook, along with its antecedents and outcomes.https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/pad/vol7/iss1/10/ |
| spellingShingle | Myers, Vanessa Price, Jennifer Roulin, Nicolas Duval, Alexandra Sobhani, Shayda Job Seekers’ Impression Management on Facebook: Scale Development, Antecedents, and Outcomes Personnel Assessment and Decisions |
| title | Job Seekers’ Impression Management on Facebook: Scale Development, Antecedents, and Outcomes |
| title_full | Job Seekers’ Impression Management on Facebook: Scale Development, Antecedents, and Outcomes |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Job Seekers’ Impression Management on Facebook: Scale Development, Antecedents, and Outcomes |
| title_short | Job Seekers’ Impression Management on Facebook: Scale Development, Antecedents, and Outcomes |
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| url | https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/pad/vol7/iss1/10/ |
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